David Barrick

co-founder / cto @kydlabs (a16z CSX ‘25)

[David Barrick @davbarrick]

@jacobdotsol agreed

[David Barrick @davbarrick]

@Pedromiranda @StubHub next world cup tickets will be issued on @tixprotocol

no more spec tickets

[David Barrick @davbarrick]

@solana @WalletConnect try it out at the best coffee shop in lisbon
https://t.co/GNokzD1VDF

[David Barrick @davbarrick]

@forcemm @TicketsData @StubHub @seated What are the flaws they went after?

[David Barrick @davbarrick]

@poolnoodle93 which venues did you take away from universe and ticketweb?

[David Barrick @davbarrick]

@iamjackstephens Without exclusivity, the underwriting model breaks.

What becomes the alternative to venue financing?

[David Barrick @davbarrick]

@samsheffer the venue took a loan from ticketmaster so they can book artists

at least half of this fee is to pay off that loan

[David Barrick @davbarrick]

@yeptos Looking forward to seeing what you build next 🙏

[David Barrick @davbarrick]

🎟️

[Solana @solana]

BREAKING: @KYDLabs launches @tixprotocol, RWAs for concert, sports, and events tickets on Solana 🔥

[David Barrick @davbarrick]

@0xNairolf tune in to @SolanaConf for an announcement from @KYDLabs this week

[David Barrick @davbarrick]

@brianhuang @solana It’s ridiculous.

We literally had to design a new protocol for tickets and break wallet compatibility to optimize for storage costs.

[David Barrick @davbarrick]

cut rent 100x

[Dean 利迪恩 (⚛️,🐱) | sbpf/acc @deanmlittle]

most ibrl shit we could by just agreeing to flip some constants instead of being autistic:
- cut rent 100x to 69 lamports per byte
- cut epoch length to something like ~4-8 hours
- "pseudo-remove" CU cap on blocks by making it 200m
- lower block times

[David Barrick @davbarrick]

@L0STE_ huge

[weisser @julianweisser]

Investor update I just got:

“We’ve finally internalized that people are bad at using software. To fix this, we are building agents that use [our product] for them.”

It’s working.

The company is growing rapidly.

[David Barrick @davbarrick]

@jacobvcreech It costs us ~$3.00 per event launch right now on KYD (full nft)

Each ticket mint would cost us a similar amount too if we weren’t using compressed nfts

Current rent rates destroy all unit economics of consumer apps

[David Barrick @davbarrick]

how long do we think it took to grind this address?

[ye @kanyewest]

YEEZY MONEY IS HERE

A NEW ECONOMY, BUILT ON CHAIN

https://t.co/DujlDYmRnL

[David Barrick @davbarrick]

gemini prompt:

“put this person in a boardroom signing documents with a mischievous look on his face”

*attach reference headshot

[Nimali @KYDNimale]

just bought the brooklyn mirage 🧵

[David Barrick @davbarrick]

@Greg_Nazario please take over comms because this explanation is way better than “hot, agnostic, incentivized” 😂

[David Barrick @davbarrick]

@redacted_noah Has always been wild to me that solana foundation doesn’t own these programs

Why did NFT infra have to be outsourced to a 3rd party